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I have not been able to listen to the radio or watch the news for a couple of days now.

I share and understand the desire to
flatten the place, but a little voice
says we should stand on law and order,
a judicial process, public trial.
Hold these guys up as
examples of what we are not.

It should be possible to cordon off this town,
squeeze em out. Limit electricity and water, l
et it be known that we want these guys.
If there is resistance, so be it.
But I do think we have to try to introduce law and order here, not just reproduce the previous terrors.

The men who have died are gone, there is a longer term issue here. We do not have to be in a big hurry,
got to keep our eyes on the goal of a transition in July.

This is a good example of a time to set a good example.

Publicize who our guys were, what they were doing.
Publicize who the killers and mutilators were, what they were doing.

Good guys, bad guys, no grey area in this one.

If the majority of the people in Iraq feel the same way as these killers and the cheering throng, we have already lost.

I would go with the chance that they do not either know what to think, or are at least partially open minded, and likely fully supportive of what we are doing. Also, they have to be afraid of the radicals within their group. It is likely still not safe to take a pro american stand for a lot of folks.

These killers are criminals to the believers of Islam, they are an excellent example of a bad example, and this is a big chance to show how Americans really do things, what we stand for, and what kind of people we are and what kind of
country we envision for them.

I share and understand the desire to flatten the place, but a little voice says we should stand on law and order, a judicial process, public trial. Hold these guys up as examples of what we are not...

Your way of thinking was shared by the BJ Clinton administration -- and it led directly to 9/11.